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Minutes before Zion Williamson and the New Orleans Pelicans faced Donovan Mitchell and the Utah Jazz in the opening game of the restarted 2019-20 NBA season, they came together to protest racial injustice. While donning warm-up shirts that read “Black Lives Matter”, the teams stood alongside each other on opposite sidelines while a video played […]

It was earlier reported that players from the Utah Jazz and the New Orleans Pelicans intend to take a knee during the playing of the national anthem during the first game of the NBA restart scheduled for Thursday night. League commissioner Adam Silver has shared his two cents on the matter. Silver admitted that he […]

NBA Commissioner Adam Silver and his team should get a ton of credit for ensuring that the pandemic-hit 2019-20 campaign sees its conclusion. The commissioner is set to make his first visit to the campus, and he recently opened up about how he currently feels about the situation. Silver first expressed his appreciation for the […]

Less than a month away from the restart of the 2019-20 NBA season, a number of players and staff have tested positive for the coronavirus. Commissioner Adam Silver is aware of this and expressed much concern that a positive test while in the Orlando campus might cause the bubble to pop. Silver spoke with Fortune […]

A U.S. Senator is looking for answers from NBA Commissioner Adam Silver regarding the league’s relationship with its longtime partner, China. Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) expressed “concern” over how the NBA has dealt with a country known for its Communist regime, one that violates plenty of democratic views. In the two-page letter obtained by Sports […]

At the TIME 100 summit, NBA Commissioner Adam Silver was asked about the possibility of players kneeling during the national anthem, which will be played ahead of games in Orlando, Florida, per Malika Andrews of ESPN. The NBA currently requires players to stand for the national anthem, but Silver says he’ll deal with the situation […]

So which one really is it? With the NBA restart coming in around 30 days, the move has been questioned as cases of COVID-19 have recently surged and a number of players have contracted the disease. This has brought up speculation about the restart, as the move has been criticized with regards to prioritizing money […]

NBA Commissioner Adam Silver did a TIME 100 talk on Tuesday, attempting to clear up a lot of aspects of the nebulous restart of the 2019-20 season at Walt Disney World. During his long chat with Sean Gregory of TIME Magazine, Silver revealed he would be in and out of the bubble rather than being […]

NBA commissioner Adam Silver says “there will not be a law enforcement presence” on the Disney World Campus. It was previously reported that local, state and federal law enforcement were going to be on the campus with the NBA players. Adam Silver said “there will not a law enforcement presence” on the campus and that […]

During a conference call on Friday, NBA commissioner Adam Silver said if there is a “significant spread” of COVID-19 at the “bubble” games, the league may have to shut the games down. Adam Silver says that if there is a “significant spread" of COVID-19 in the bubble, "that may lead us to stopping” play. — […]

NBA Commissioner Adam Silver and National Basketball Players Association President Chris Paul vowed to use the restart of the 2019-20 season as a platform to enact social change. There had been debate about the optics of restarting the season at a time of civil unrest, but the league has determined to make the most of […]

The recent spike of coronavirus cases in Florida is understandably casting a shadow on the NBA’s plan to resume the season in a bubble in Orlando. In fact, sources said that it is no less than league commissioner Adam Silver himself who has raised concerns pertaining to the threat of the virus in the bubble’s […]

The NBA has had a lot of firsts over the past few months, and there seems to be a bit more of this on the horizon. The league has reportedly opted to provide all its employees with a paid day off for Juneteenth — the first time this has ever happened in league history. This […]

One of the biggest concerns in the NBA’s bubble plan in Florida is how to ensure the health and safety of the players and all people involved in the resumption of the season. In this respect, the league has taken an important step to prevent further complications on site. According to NBA insider Shams Charania […]

Several players are against the re-opening of the 2019-20 season, noting that basketball might serve as a distraction from the current social justice issues hounding the US. But for NBA Commissioner Adam Silver, the league actually has a “unique opportunity” to address these issues — a chance that nobody else in the world has. Over […]

With the enormous audience the NBA is able to generate, it is to no surprise that people involved in the league would try to use the platform they have to express their position on different societal issues.  Here is a look at five of the most vocal NBA personalities when it comes to social issues. […]

NBA commissioner Adam Silver acknowledged the concerns about the league’s proposed “bubble plan” for the resumption of the 2019-20 regular season on July 30 at Orlando, Florida Along with the social distancing guidelines, all ensuing games will be crowd-less and will be played in a closed environment where participants will also live and practice. During […]

Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey has provided a definitive statement with regards to the team’s stance on head coach Mike D’Antoni potentially not joining the Rockets in the Orlando bubble. D’Antoni is currently the second oldest coach in the league at 69, and there have been legitimate concerns about the veteran coach being vulnerable […]

Back in the good old days (four months ago), NBA fans were debating trends in the sport, who would win the Eastern and Western Conference, and who should be the number one pick in the draft, among other topics. One of those talking points was resting stars, officially known as “load management.” That element of […]

Kevin Durant is back, well sort of. As per NBA Commissioner Adam Silver, athletes who have been originally declared out for the season will now be allowed to play when the adjusted 2019-2020 regular season resumes next month. Of course given that they are shown the green light by their respective franchises. “We’re gonna allow […]

Naturally, one of, if not the biggest concern about the NBA’s impending move to restart the season in July is the possibility of a player — or anybody else physically present within the bubble, for that matter — tests positive for the coronavirus. Commissioner Adam Silver recently addressed this issue in an NBA on TNT […]

NBA commissioner Adam Silver has backtracked on his earlier statement on TNT about possibly not allowing “certain coaches” to sit on the bench during games once the season resumes “in order to protect them.” ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski reports that per Dallas Mavericks head coach Rick Carlisle — who currently stands as the president of the […]

Basketball fans worldwide rejoiced after the NBA confirmed that it will resume the 2019-20 NBA regular season on July 31. It appears that we have Michael Jordan to thank for the agreed-upon format, per NBA Commissioner Adam Silver. In a tweet from Tim Reynolds of the Associated Press on Thursday, Silver bared that the league’s […]

The NBA formally approved a plan to resume the 2019-20 season on Thursday, which will bring 22 teams—13 from the West and nine Eastern Conference teams—to Walt Disney World in Orlando. The teams will play eight regular-season games to determine seeding, then possibly a play-in tournament for the eighth seed. The top 16 teams in […]

The recently revealed return-to-play proposal is plenty more than most expected out of a truncated end to the 2019-20 NBA regular season. Let’s take a look at the specifics: Twenty-two teams. Eight regular-season games. A play-in tournament. Regular seven-game series playoffs. Besides minimizing the risk by leaving eight teams at home, the NBA has surely […]

NBA Commissioner Adam Silver made it clear that he is behind his NBA players who have been taking part in peaceful protests amid racial injustice. In an internal league memo obtained by Vincent Goodwill of Yahoo Sports, Adam Silver acknowledged that social injustice remains rampant in the United States. “Racism, police brutality and racial injustice […]

The NBA has explored a plethora of potential options to restart the 2019-20 season, including going straight to playoffs with the reseeding of all 16 playoff teams into one big conference-less bracket. While it’s only one of the very many scenarios the league has spitballed in hopes to crown a champion at the end of […]

NBA legend Jerry Sloan passed away at the age of 78 on Friday, and many around the league are paying their respects to the Hall of Famer. Commissioner Adam Silver released a statement on Sloan, raving about Sloan for both his 11-year playing career between the Baltimore Bullets and Chicago Bulls and his 23-year coaching […]

The 2019-20 NBA campaign could be on its way back. According to Shams Charania and Sam Amick of The Athletic, the league is shooting for a mid-July return at Disney World in Orlando. While nothing is concrete just yet, Charania and Amick note that the idea of players training in mid-June and then ultimately returning […]

Last week, NBA Commissioner Adam Silver stated that he needed a two-to-four-week window to make a decision on whether or not the NBA season would resume. As it appears, a new development has emerged involving the Houston Rockets’ home court as a potential venue for the NBA should the commissioner opt to resume the season. […]

On April 25, 2014, TMZ released the racist recordings of then-Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling. The Clippers had Game 4 of their first-round series against the Golden State Warriors coming up on Sunday in Oakland. Clippers head coach Doc Rivers recently recalled to TNT’s Ernie Johnson the hours following the release of the tapes, […]

Houston Rockets owner Tilman Fertitta fielded questions about his franchise and the NBA’s potential return from an unlikely source on Monday: President Donald Trump. During a meeting at the White House about the restaurant industry, Trump brought up Houston’s continued employment of general manager Daryl Morey after his tweet supporting the Hong Kong anti-government protests […]

The NBA is once again warming up to the idea of resuming the 2019-20 season, with just too much money at stake to give up on it. Recent talk of the salary cap expecting to take a decline in the wake of a broken partnership with China and the outbreak of the coronavirus has lit […]

NBA Commissioner Adam Silver issued a warning to the Board of Governors during a call on Tuesday, noting that if a positive coronavirus test “would shut us down, we probably shouldn’t go down this path,” according to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski. The league has been gaining momentum the last two days, hoping to resume the 2019-20 […]

We have just received what is perhaps the most concrete update with regards to the league’s plans of resuming the current campaign. NBA insider Shams Charania reports that league commissioner Adam Silver intends to make a decision in the near future about the status of the current season. Here is the update from Shams via […]

NBA Commissioner Adam Silver has notably been way out in front of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic that is sweeping the planet in terms of those that currently lead major North American professional sports organizations. The NBA was infamously the first professional sports league in the United States to put itself on indefinite hiatus after several […]

China’s CCTV released a statement on Tuesday saying that it is not planning on televising NBA games upon the league’s return. The relationship between the TV station and the league is clearly still fractured after Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey’s tweet in defense of the Hong Kong protests last October. As ESPN’s Brian Windhorst […]

The NBA and NBPA have reached an agreement to extend the 60-day window that preserves the league’s right to terminate the collective bargaining agreement until September, according to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski. The uncertainty in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic has caused for the rescheduling and postponement of several key league dates. The original 60-day […]

The ongoing coronavirus pandemic has shifted the NBA schedule, forcing the 2019-20 season to possibly be played late into the fall. The NBA season has been suspended since March 11 and while there are no concrete plans as to when or even if the season will resume, Los Angeles Lakers veteran Jared Dudley reports that […]